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Show MARKETING FOR THE 8EA COW. It Is Necessary Now to Cut Through Ice to Get at the Eel Grass. Tho man who does tho marketing for tho Aqunrlutn'a sen cow has had lo do somo lively hustling this winter to keep that big animal supplied with food. Tho sea cow Is eight foot long, volglis S00 pounds, nnd has a hoallhy appetite. In tho first eighteen weeks after Its nrrlval hero from Florida, on Sept 3 last. It ato ninety bushels of eel grass, six hushols of fennel loafed pond wood and two bushels of ulvn, or sea lettuce, making ninety-eight bushols of aquatic plants in all In eighteen weoks, or an average of about five and una half bushels a weolt, which Is about Its present rato of consumption. Tho eel grass and other things for the sea cow's table aro gathered in Ornvesend Hay or tho waters therewith there-with contacted, Hamon say that tho present has been tho hardest winter hereabouts on tho wator In twenty-live years. On many days It has been necessary nec-essary to cut through the Ico to get at tho eel grass required fur tho sea cow's food, sometimes through Ico ten Inches In thlcknoes and often through Ice of five or six Inches. Sometimes when tho Ico had moved out with a shift of the wind, leaving opon spaces, access to tho eel grass would bo easy, but frequently tho Ico would havo closed In, and then It would bo necessary to cut holes In It to get at the col grass bolow. ' So tho work of supplying tho sea cow's tablo has been so far this win-tor win-tor attended by moro or leas difficulty, but thcro has novcr boon a day on which tho sea cow has had to go hungry. hun-gry. Now York Sun. |